Pure Elan RV40 Reviews:

+ Very very easy to set up, great sound, alarm clock feature v useful

- An integral rechargeable battery would be useful

+ Radio is good in appearance. Sounds good .Difficult to convert instructions from book to machine.

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+ ReVu works very well, Excellent value for money when I bought it.

- Sound is a little bit tinny

+ As above

- Dreadful instruction manual

+ Good value for money for all the features that the radio brings. The Revu is really useful

- only picks out the BBC radio stations well. very poor reception for the others. I specifically wnated Talk Sport and this is very crackly.
Back screen could be lit on difficult to see scrolling text against the dark background

+ Modern design. Light. Compact.

- Difficult to turn on quietly in the morning - defaults to last setting and solow to adjus. Risk waking everyone else up.

+ Love it.....looks great in our kitchen, sounds great - use our i-pod with the i-trip lots too - really chuffed great choice! Can't comment on the purchasing experience - it was a gift, but a great one! Thanks Mam

- None yet!!

+ Compact, slim, ideal for kitchen window cill
Good sound quality
Easy to set up

- Not so good fm receptjon as previous analogue receiver

+ Well designed easy to use great value for money. What more can I say.

- none really.

+ Ease of use and reception quality

- Nothing bad

+ It can be Battery powered and it lasts well ** see below.
You can view and rewind the text.
You can rewind the radio! Quite mind boggling and occasionally useful.
Sound quality with speech particularly good.
Has good environmental credentials. Low power consumption.

- ** Battery suddenly dies. Yesterday it had to be removed and replaced to be able to charge. Maybe a fault there. Battery is RIDICULOUSLY expensive, but there's not much competition with battery DABS as they usually drain to much.
Looks are a bit iffy. My wife was slightly dissapointed it wasn't like the 'wooden' ones she'd seen. However she loves the radio now.

+ easy to set stations,

- hard to read so time

+ Amazing self tuning feature- turned it on for the first time and a few minutes later all the stations were there!
Lots of presets. Looks good too.

- None as yet.

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- Tinny vibration if volume turned up - disappointed

+ this is very easy to use i use it in a caravan and with a battery pack fitted it lasts three days i also have a12v
adapter and the mains adapter which will charge the battery pack while you listen it took me a little while to
get used to the tuning and is very robust for the use i put it to

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- Difficult to set resets

+ I have been very pleased with this radio and was most impressed with the price

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+ VERY CLEAR CRISP TONES
GREAT TO HEAR DIGITAL RADIO CHANNELS THAT I CANNOT ACCESS FROM MY OTHER RADIO

- THERE IS NO BAD POINTS I CAN THINK OF.

+ Neat and reasonably small. The technical receiving seems to be good (i.e. plenty of stations, so I presume that it's sensitive). I don't use the pause facility, so can't comment. It is nice to be able to see what I'm listening to - a feature of all DAB radios I suppose.

- Really disappointing sound quality :-(( Cramped sound, which seems to be not nearly as listenable as my FM sets. No bass, probably because of a small (good!) cabinet, lacking mass. Sound also lacks the crisp highs that I get on FM.

+ everything especially the rewind

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+ Easy to use with good quality sound, not too bulky.

- Display could be cleare

+ Great little radio, nice look, clear sound and the revue is a good add-on.

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+ Revu feature is great. This gives up to a rolling 30 mins pause and rewind.

- Could do with a better display.

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- After all the hype about DAB radio I probably expected too much. I now only use it for the Today programme.

+ Simple & easy to use

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